Partly granted
The Board granted a 10 percent disability rating for hypertension and remanded the claim for service connection for squamous cell carcinoma.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's systolic blood pressure readings were predominantly at or above 160, meeting the criteria for a 10 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 7101. The Board remanded the squamous cell carcinoma claim due to the need for an opinion on its relationship to herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertension, squamous cell carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- December 9, 2025
- Citation
- A25105737
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