The Board has determined that the Veteran's cause of death, intracerebral hemorrhage due to hypertension, was related to his service-connected disabilities and grants service connection for the cause of death.
The deciding factor: Medical opinions are in equipoise regarding whether the Veteran's service-connected conditions contributed to or caused his hypertension, which led to his death from an intracerebral hemorrhage.
- Claimed conditions
- undiagnosed illness-systemic disease (analogous to chronic fatigue syndrome), residuals of inservice trauma C-1 and C-2 superimposed on congenital anomalies of upper cervical spine and fusion at C-1 and C-2, undiagnosed illness-musculoskeletal disease (analogous to fibromyalgia), pseudofolliculitis barbae of the face
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- December 8, 2014
- Citation
- 1453934
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