The Board remands the claim for service connection for hypertension, including as secondary to a service-connected cervical strain with degenerative disc disease, due to inadequate medical opinions.
The deciding factor: The pre-decisional VA opinions are found to be inadequate, and remand is required to afford the Veteran adequate opinions regarding the nature and etiology of his hypertension, including whether it was caused or aggravated by his service-connected cervical strain with degenerative disc disease, as well as any obesity that may have resulted from this disability.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertension
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25015532
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