The Veteran withdrew his appeal regarding a higher disability rating for hypertensive cardiovascular disease before the Board could make a decision.
The deciding factor: The Veteran and his representative withdrew their appeal with respect to this issue.
- Claimed conditions
- Hypertensive cardiovascular disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19183529
What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's death was not proximately caused by carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment, or similar instance of fault on the part of VA. The evidence did not support a finding that the Veteran's discharge from the hospital was due to negligence or carelessness.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to insufficient medical opinion regarding the cause of death and its relation to service.
- Granted
The Veteran's cause of death (seizure disorder, post-cerebral infarction and hypertensive cardiovascular disease) is found to be at least as likely as not caused by his exposure to herbicides during service.
- Partly granted
The veteran's diabetes mellitus with polyneuropathy and hypertension with hypertensive retinopathy do not warrant higher ratings, but his hypertensive cardiovascular disease warrants a 30 percent rating.
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