The Board granted service connection for hypertensive heart disease as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected essential hypertension.
The deciding factor: The February 2020 private medical opinion found that it was at least as likely as not that the Veteran's current hypertensive heart disease with left ventricular hypertrophy was secondary to his service-connected essential hypertension, and this evidence outweighed other conflicting opinions.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertensive heart disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 3, 2024
- Citation
- A24063104
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Granted
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- Partly granted
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