Service connection granted for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus.,The Veteran's hypertension is remanded for further examination to determine its relationship to service-connected conditions or in-service herbicide exposure.,The Veteran's chronic kidney disease is remanded for further examination to determine its relationship to service-connected conditions or in-service herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: Service connection granted based on current evidence of bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus since separation from service, with no significant threshold shift noted during service.,The Veteran's hypertension is remanded as the VA examiner did not have an opportunity to consider his medications used to treat his service-connected conditions and recent NASEM publication findings regarding herbicide exposure and hypertension.,The Veteran's chronic kidney disease is remanded for further examination to determine its relationship to in-service herbicide exposure or service-connected psoriasis and/or hepatitis, considering the impact of medication use on kidney function.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Hearing Loss, Tinnitus, Hypertension, Chronic Kidney Disease
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19195516
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What this means for you
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