The Board has granted service connection for a back disability, erectile dysfunction, and hypertension. The back disability is secondary to the Veteran's service-connected left total knee replacement and right foot metatarsalgia with pes planus. Erectile dysfunction is also secondary to his service-connected disabilities. However, hypertension was not incurred in or aggravated by service.
The deciding factor: The September 2022 VA examiner found that the Veteran's hypertension was less likely than not incurred in or proximately due to his active duty service, or proximately due to or aggravated by a service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative arthritis of the lumbar spine with lumbar disc disease and left lower extremity radiculopathy, Erectile dysfunction, Hypertension
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 27, 2023
- Citation
- 23011877
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