Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for hypertension and chronic kidney disease to obtain an addendum medical opinion regarding their relationship to in-service asbestos exposure.
The deciding factor: The January 2025 VA opinion is based on an inaccurate factual premise, specifically that the Veteran's only possible toxic exposure may have been asbestos, which contradicts his service connection for asbestosis and radiographic evidence of asbestos-related pleural disease.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertension, chronic kidney disease
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 10, 2025
- Citation
- 25003322
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