The Veteran's claims for service connection for PFB, tinnitus, and hypertension were granted. The claim for sinusitis was withdrawn by the Veteran.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran had credible evidence of in-service exposure to noise leading to tinnitus, and accepted his account of having developed PFB during basic training. For hypertension, the Board considered the Veteran's service-connected anxiety disorder but concluded it did not cause or aggravate his hypertension.
- Claimed conditions
- sinusitis, pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB), tinnitus, hypertension
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 20, 2019
- Citation
- 19163874
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