The Board found that new evidence received since the last denial supports reopening the claim of service connection for varicose veins, but denied the secondary service connection claim as there is no causal relationship between the Veteran's current varicose veins and his service-connected hypertensive heart disease and sinus tachycardia.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran's varicose veins are less likely related to his hypertension with sinus tachycardia, citing lack of pathophysiologic correlation and risk factors for varicose veins not being present in this case.
- Claimed conditions
- Varicose veins
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 15, 2018
- Citation
- 1809508
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