The Board has granted service connection for hypertension for accrued benefits purposes, finding that the evidence is in relative equipoise as to whether the Veteran's hypertension was linked to his active service.,The Board has also granted service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death due to heart failure, finding that the evidence is in relative equipoise as to whether the Veteran's death is causally related to his service-connected hypertension.
The deciding factor: The October 2005 private physician's opinion linking the Veteran's hypertension to its onset during service and noting the difficulty of controlling the condition, combined with the June 2010 VA examiner's finding that hypertension was a risk factor for heart failures, supports the conclusion that the Veteran's death is causally related to his service-connected hypertension.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertension, heart failure
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 11, 2018
- Citation
- 1802370
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