Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for cataracts, finding that there was no medical evidence linking the condition to his active service or a service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: The August 2025 VA examiner opined that the Veteran's bilateral cataracts are not secondary to his service-connected hypertension and were not aggravated by it. Additionally, there was no evidence supporting a direct link between the Veteran's in-service exposures and the development of cataracts.
- Claimed conditions
- cataracts
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 9, 2025
- Citation
- 25014697
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