The Board has remanded the issues of service connection for tuberculosis as secondary to PTSD and for hypertensive retinopathy. The effective date for the 100% rating for ischemic heart disease is denied.
The deciding factor: New evidence received since the last denial raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims, but no new facts have been established regarding the earlier effective date claim.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertensive retinopathy, tuberculosis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 4, 2021
- Citation
- 21026888
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