The Veteran's claim for service connection for an erectile dysfunction disability, claimed as secondary to hypertension is granted. The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for a chronic constrictive pericarditis disability is denied.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's erectile dysfunction was due to his service-connected hypertension and thus granted service connection on a secondary basis.
- Claimed conditions
- Erectile Dysfunction, Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 12, 2019
- Citation
- 19145558
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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