Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for hypertension, to include due to herbicide agent exposure, was dismissed as a duplicate of an existing appeal stream.
The deciding factor: The second and third NODs initiated duplicate appeal streams that were deemed redundant with the first appeal stream, leading to their dismissal.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertension (HTN)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25018757
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