BVA Decisions on Hypertension

65 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving hypertension — Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions and U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) decisions, each labeled with its court. Each links to the full decision, reasoning, and citations.

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• CAVCCase 02-1077 — Vacated / Denied April 14, 2005
  In an addendum, the VA physician opined: This veteran's CAD is more likely than not related to both his long[]standing smoking and his [hypertension (HPT)]....
• CAVCCase 90-0818 — Unknown April 12, 1995
  In a July 1988 decision, the RO determined that the veteran had not submitted new and material evidence to reopen his claim because no medical records had shown a right-leg injury ...
• CAVCCase 91-1082 — Vacated March 22, 1993
  The Board concluded that there was no evidence of MS in service or within the seven-year period for establishing service connection for MS on a presumptive basis (see 38 U....
• CAVCCase 93-644 — Dismissed / Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded April 14, 1995
  In February 1987, the RO confirmed its October 1986 denial of service connection for heart disease, finding that the evidence submitted was "not new and material"....
• CAVCCase 93-1203 — Vacated October 20, 1995
  3 The Board found that the evidence did not establish that "the veteran's heart disease manifested by systolic murmur was incurred or aggravated during active service"....
• CAVCCase 92-622 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded March 6, 1995
  The appellant has filed a brief requesting that the Court vacate the Board's decision denying his claims for back condition and arthritis, reverse the Board's finding that the evid...
• CAVCCase 04-0140 — Affirmed September 11, 2006
  In May 1982, a VA regional office (RO) denied him entitlement to service connection for his heart-related conditions on the grounds that there was no evidence in his service medica...
• CAVCCase 94-764 — Remanded / Affirmed / Vacated April 29, 1997
  In a December 1987 decision, the Board denied the § 351 DIC claim, finding that the "veteran's death was irrespective of the treatment provided and any factor arising from the trea...
• CAVCCase 95-310 — Remanded / Denied / Vacated November 10, 1998
  sychiatric disorder, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); the Board also concluded that new and material evidence had not been presented or secured to reopen his previo...
• CAVCCase 96-1637 — Vacated / Denied / Dismissed / Granted Sep 15, 2000
  In addition, the Board noted that in order for the appellant to qualify for DIC the veteran must have been in receipt of a 100% rating for 5 10 years prior to his death and that, i...
• CAVCCase 93-985 — Vacated July 14, 1995
  This case presents the Court with three related questions: (1) Whether this claim was well grounded when only "hearsay" medical evidence (the appellant's statement as to what his p...
• CAVCCase 90-720 — Vacated / Affirmed February 18, 1994
  3 On July 20, 1988, the rating board denied service connection for a seizure disorder, headaches, peripheral vascular disease, and venous insufficiency....
• BVACase 23012576 — Denied / Granted / Remanded March 1, 2023
  New and material evidence has not been received to reopen a claim of entitlement to service connection for chronic migraine headaches, and the claim to reopen is denied....
• CAVCCase 91-1868 — Unknown November 5, 1993
  On February 23, 1981, the Board denied an increased evaluation for the service-connected right shoulder condition and denied service connection for the other conditions, including ...
• CAVCCase 96-1574 — Affirmed / Denied November 16, 1998
  In a November 3, 1973, BVA decision, the Board determined that "[t]he veteran does not have an identifiable disease entity involving the low back, thighs[,] and legs related to the...
• CAVCCase 90-1138 — Denied / Dismissed / Vacated / Remanded May 18, 1993
  The appellant's primary contention on appeal is that the Board erred in failing to award a service-connected rating for beriberi or beriberi heart disease....
• BVACase 24009973 — Granted / Denied / Remanded February 29, 2024
  20-27 542 DATE: February 29, 2024 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claim of service connection for a low back disorder is reopened and to this extent only,...
• CAVCCase 90-222 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated April 24, 1992
  The rating board concluded: "Veteran is not shown to be unemployable primarily because of [service-connected] condition....
• CAVCCase 91-1683 — Denied / Granted / Vacated June 2, 1994
  In the June 1991 decision here on appeal, the Board denied the appellant's claim....
• CAVCCase 03-1251 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded December 15, 2004
  Duenas, who is unrepresented, appeals a May 13, 2003, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied his claims for service connection for (1) a urinary trac...
• CAVCCase 99-1390 — Affirmed August 20, 2002
  In the BVA decision presently on appeal, the Board found that because a September 1988 RO decision had denied service connection for PTSD (R....
• DecisionCase 24016401 — Denied April 17, 2024
  16-34 356 DATE: April 17, 2024 ORDER New and material evidence has not been received; the petition to reopen a previously denied claim for service connection for a hiatal hernia is...
• CAVCCase 94-149 — Reversed / Dismissed / Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed April 16, 1996
  In April 1971, the RO, finding the evidence submitted "not new and material to warrant a favorable reconsideration", refused to reopen the claim....
• BVACase 200901-107174 — Granted / Denied / Remanded March 26, 2024
  The Veteran was notified of the denial in an October 2016 letter and did not initiate an appeal or submit new and material evidence within one year....
• CAVCCase 94-0384 — Affirmed February 27, 1997
  The next month, the Regional Office (RO) informed him that he was not service connected for bronchitis, but that if he wished to file a claim for that condition, he needed to submi...
• BVACase 23006286 — Denied / Remanded February 1, 2023
  The Veteran's cervical spine disability is not related to his active service....
• CAVCCase 91-1535 — Reversed
  held that: (1) claims were properly reopened; (2) remand was required for assignment of disability rating for reopened nervous disorder claim; and (3) Board's finding that five-yea...
• CAVCCase 93-62 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded January 26, 1995
  In November 1982, the Board denied, on the following grounds, service connection for the veteran's heart disorder: Examinations prior to 1979 had not found evidence of left-side he...
• CAVCCase 91-1455 — Affirmed May 12, 1993
  HOLDAWAY, Associate Judge: The veteran appeals a July 8, 1991, Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) decision concluding that there was no "new and material" evidence to reopen...
• DecisionCase 25009942 — Granted / Denied July 31, 2025
  At which time, the Board found additional information and evidence had been submitted by the Veteran, which raised additional theories of entitlement to service connection that wer...
• CAVCCase 03-1276 — Remanded / Vacated / Reversed August 5, 2005
  A December 30, 2002, Board decision denied the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death; the Board found that "[n]o service-connected disabilit...
• BVACase 23034679 — Granted / Denied / Remanded June 20, 2023
  As new and material evidence (NME) has not been received, the claim to reopen entitlement to service connection for a back condition is denied....
• BVACase 220615-252249 — Granted / Denied / Remanded August 25, 2025
  e present disability and the disease or injury incurred or aggravated during service-the so-called "nexus" requirement....
• BVACase 23031314 — Dismissed / Granted / Denied / Remanded May 30, 2023
  The additional documentation submitted since the August 2009 and October 2012 rating decision is new and material and raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the Veteran'...
• CAVCCase 90-103 — Vacated September 15, 1993
  actor in the veteran's unemployment; to discuss the veteran's capacity for work; and to discuss the credibility of the veteran's sworn testimony as evidence....
• BVACase 220714-259014 — Denied / Remanded October 30, 2024
  If evidence was submitted during the period after the AOJ issued the decisions, which were subsequently subject to higher-level review the Board did not consider it in its decision...
• CAVCCase 94-54 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded March 8, 1996
  The appellant contends that the Board erred in failing to apply 38 U....
• CAVCCase 96-947 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded January 20, 1999
  Additionally, the Board concluded that the veteran had never filed a Substantive Appeal as to claims for service connection for varicose 2 veins of the right leg and for an increas...
• BVACase 24026388 — Granted / Denied / Remanded July 16, 2024
  New and material evidence not having been received, the request to reopen the claim of entitlement to service connection for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), also clai...
• CAVCCase 17-2879 — Vacated
  Euzebio “ha[d] not demonstrated prejudicial error in the Board’s decision to decline to obtain a medical nexus opinion” to evaluate whether Mr....
• CAVCCase 93-289 — Affirmed April 6, 1995
  The Board denied the appellant's claim and she filed a timely appeal to this Court....
• BVACase 22059105 — Granted / Denied October 20, 2022
  New and material evidence has not been submitted to reopen the claim of service connection for Bell's Palsy on the left side of face, and the appeal is denied....
• CAVCCase 00-2382 — Reversed June 6, 2003
  In the August 2000 BVA decision here on appeal denying the veteran's claim for service connection for DJD of the right hip, the Board determined that the veteran's claim for VA ser...
• CAVCCase 95-444 — Denied March 21, 1997
  A well-grounded service-connection claim generally requires medical evidence of a current disability; medical or, in certain circumstances, lay evidence of in-service incurrence or...
• CAVCCase 90-1150 — Vacated / Dismissed / Granted / Reversed September 23, 1994
  8 is a finding of fact that the Court must affirm unless that determination is found to be 'clearly erroneous'"); Bledsoe v....
• DecisionCase 240517-440505 — Denied / Remanded / Granted May 30, 2025
  Continuity of symptomatology may be shown by demonstrating "(1) that a condition was 'noted' during service or any applicable presumption period; (2) evidence of post-service conti...
• DecisionCase 24021575 — Remanded May 30, 2024
  The RO reopened the Veteran's claim for frostbite based upon a finding of new and material evidence before denying the claim....
• CAVCCase 95-1071 — Unknown November 20, 1997
  In response to the veteran's repeated requests for compensation at a wartime rate, the RO informed him in August 1989 that he would have to submit new and material evidence to demo...
• BVACase 210425-155589 — Denied / Remanded December 20, 2024
  To the extent the evidence is found in "approximate balance," the Board will afford the benefit of the doubt in favor of the Veteran....
• CAVCCase 00-499 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded September 14, 2004
  The appellant also contends that a remand is required because VA failed to adjudicate the appellant's claim for non-service-connected pension....
• CAVCCase 97-62 — Affirmed March 25, 1998
  Bostain, widow of veteran Carl Bostain, appeals a September 26, 1996, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board or BVA) which determined that she had not submitted new and ...
• CAVCCase 03-0506 — Remanded / Vacated October 28, 2004
  The appellant also asserts that even if his headaches did not satisfy all criteria for a 50% rating, the Board erred by requiring total satisfaction rather than determining which r...
• BVACase 23047753 — Dismissed / Granted / Remanded August 30, 2023
  A grant for service connection for a disability requires: (1) a present disability or persistent or recurrent symptoms of a disability; (2) an in-service incurrence or aggravation ...
• BVACase 23052736 — Granted / Denied / Remanded September 22, 2023
  New and material evidence has been associated with the claims file since the prior final denial of entitlement to service connection for IBS in September 2013....
• CAVCCase 92-1227 — Unknown November 28, 1995
  In its discussion of the reasons or bases for its decision, the Board noted that, with the exception of "a single elevated blood pressure reading of 132/94", SMRs were negative for...
• BVACase 09-0106 — Affirmed
  Harvella Jones appeals from the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (the Veterans Court) affirming the decision of the Board of Veterans Appeals (the...
• CAVCCase 90-305 — Affirmed May 24, 1991
  On February 5, 1986, the rating board denied appellant's claim for service connection for a skin condition of the feet (tinea pedis), a back condition, and hypertension....
• BVACase 23040725 — Denied / Granted July 26, 2023
  Most recently, in December 2022, the Board remanded the appeal to obtain an adequate examination and opinion....
• BVACase 220223-222178 — Denied / Remanded May 22, 2024
  FINDING OF FACT The Veteran is not service connected for the primary disability of PAD; the medical evidence weighs against finding that the claimed left hip disability was proxima...
• BVACase 23034954 — Granted / Remanded June 21, 2023
  As only a past history of asthma, and no current disability, was noted, the Veteran is presumed sound....
• CAVCCase 93-686 — Vacated / Remanded November 1, 1995
  The appellant filed an appeal claiming that VA did not address the issue of his entitlement to a 100% rating from February 1990....
• BVACase 210922-186906 — Denied / Vacated August 27, 2024
  The Board denied the claim of entitlement to TDIU in a December 2016 decision....
• BVACase 22019634 — Denied April 2, 2022
  The Board notes there has been substantial compliance with its October 2021 directives, to the extent an adequate medical nexus opinion has been obtained and considering that the V...
• CAVCCase 94-476 — Remanded / Vacated October 10, 1996
  In order for the appellant's claim for service connection to be well grounded, he must have presented competent evidence of the following: a current disability, a disease or injury...
• BVACase 24033637 — Denied / Granted December 2, 2024
  The parties agreed that remand was necessary because the Board did not address the Veteran's argument that his disability was secondary to his service-connected non-allergic rhinit...