The Board denied service connection for a low back disability and hypertension, finding no new and material evidence to reopen these claims. The RO also denied service connection for left knee disability secondary to right knee disability and rated dysthymic disorder at the highest available level (50%) and enucleation of the right eye at 40%. A TDIU claim was not addressed.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was submitted to reopen the claims for low back disability and hypertension, which were previously denied. The RO also did not find any new and material evidence to reopen the left knee disability secondary to right knee disability or the dysthymic disorder and enucleation of the right eye.
- Claimed conditions
- Low Back Disability, Hypertension
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 8, 2014
- Citation
- 1400672
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