The Board has granted service connection for a right eye disorder secondary to hypertension, finding that the evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's right eye retinopathy is etiologically related to his service-connected hypertension.
The deciding factor: The Board resolved all reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran, attributing the right eye retinopathy to his service-connected hypertension.
- Claimed conditions
- right eye retinopathy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- March 14, 2019
- Citation
- 19118296
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What this means for you
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