The Board has reopened the veteran's claim of service connection for hypertension, to include as due to his service-connected auriculoventricular heart block with myocardial damage. The new evidence submitted suggests a possible relationship between hypertension and previous heart damage.
The deciding factor: New medical evidence provided by a VA treatment provider indicates a potential causal relationship between hypertension and the veteran's previously service-connected cardiovascular disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate cancer, hypertension
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 6, 2003
- Citation
- 0308586
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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