The Board has determined that the veteran's cerebrovascular accidents were secondarily related to his service-connected hypertension, and thus granted service connection for these conditions as secondary to hypertension. The cause of death was also found to be due to a service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: Medical opinions indicated that the veteran's strokes were aggravated by his service-connected hypertension.
- Claimed conditions
- Cerebrovascular Accidents, Hypertension/Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 19, 2004
- Citation
- 0422888
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- Granted
The veteran's residuals of cerebrovascular accidents to include cognitive disorder were granted a 100 percent evaluation from November 1, 1996 to June 17, 1998, and from January 1, 1999 to February 10, 1999.
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