The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to herbicide exposure, as well as the claim for tinnitus. The Veteran's service records confirm his service in Thailand from March 1968 to February 1970 and his alleged exposure to herbicides during that time. However, there is no direct evidence of such exposure. The Board has requested further inquiry through the JSRRC to verify this claim. For hypertension, VA treatment records do not confirm a diagnosis of hypertension. The Veteran's tinnitus claim requires an addendum opinion from a VA audiologist to determine if it is related to service.
The deciding factor: The claims are remanded due to insufficient evidence regarding herbicide exposure and the lack of confirmed diagnoses in the medical records for hypertension and tinnitus.
- Claimed conditions
- heart disability, hypertension, tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- September 12, 2018
- Citation
- 18134396
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
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