The Board has determined that the veteran's hypertension was incurred in service and granted service connection for this condition. The claim for bilateral hip disabilities is remanded due to lack of available service records.
The deciding factor: The evidence established a continuity of symptomatology from service, including medical history showing hypertension shortly after discharge.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hip disabilities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 11, 2004
- Citation
- 0412229
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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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