The Board has found that the veteran's essential hypertension may be presumed to have been incurred in service due to its onset within a year of separation from active duty. The issue of whether new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen claims for migraine headaches, breathing problems, skin irritation, and eye problems including as due to undiagnosed illness is addressed.
The deciding factor: Essential hypertension was first demonstrated within the one-year presumptive period following separation from wartime service.
- Claimed conditions
- essential hypertension, seizures
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 28, 2003
- Citation
- 0307976
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- Denied
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- Denied
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