The Board remands the claims for service connection for heart conditions, high blood pressure, and generalized anxiety disorder with unspecified depressive disorder due to a need for additional evidence.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to obtain opinions addressing the Veteran's in-service toxic exposure risk activity (TERA) at Camp Lejeune and to determine the current nature and etiology of his heart conditions and high blood pressure, as well as whether his anxiety clearly and unmistakably preexisted service or was aggravated by it.
- Claimed conditions
- Heart conditions, High blood pressure, Generalized anxiety disorder with unspecified depressive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Camp Lejeune water
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 23, 2025
- Citation
- A25091839
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