Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for an initial compensable rating for hypertension and service connection for bilateral peripheral vascular disease, to include as due to herbicide agent exposure and/or secondary to a service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors, including missing private treatment records and inadequate VA examinations.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertension, bilateral peripheral vascular disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25019851
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