The Board has determined that the veteran's claimed disabilities of hypertension, peptic ulcer disease, chronic bronchitis, and hemorrhoids were not incurred or aggravated during active military service. These conditions may not be presumed to be causally related to such service.
The deciding factor: There is no competent clinical evidence relating these disabilities to any incident, injury, or disease of active service decades earlier.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertension with hypertensive cardiovascular disease, peptic ulcer disease, chronic bronchitis, hemorrhoids
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 11, 2003
- Citation
- 0302607
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for asthma and remanded claims for insomnia and sleep apnea. Other conditions were denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for hemorrhoids due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error, requiring an additional direct medical opinion.
- Granted
The Board granted a 10 percent rating for hemorrhoids, which fully satisfies the Veteran's appeal.
- Partly granted
The Board denied an initial compensable rating for non-allergic rhinitis, denied service connection for gastrointestinal anal cancer, and granted service connection for chronic bronchitis.
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