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Va Disability Hypertensive Vascular Disease

Boris The Animal

11/26/2021

10 percent disability rating. 30 percent disability rating.

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Veterans in the following groups may qualify for presumptive disability benefits.

Va disability hypertensive vascular disease. All was well until 2002 I had some bad chest pains and ended up with 5 stents. Arthritis diabetes or hypertension. Your physician must clearly document your high blood pressure diagnosis before you can get a VA disability for hypertension rating.

Hypertension high blood pressure Traumatic arteriovenous fistula. Examples of chronic disease include. The Arteries and Veins are a vast network of blood.

I was diagnosed with Hypertension in 1974 retired in 1979 with 10 for it. When I saw the Cardiologist had diagnosed me with Hypertensive Heart Disease I filed a claim. The hypertension VA rating depends on the severity of your high blood pressure.

The Code of Federal Regulations CFR describes the rules from the Federal Government. If so you could be eligible to receive monthly VA disability compensation for artery and vein conditions for the rest of your life along with many other veterans benefits such as health care. And denied service connection for diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia.

So if the rating criteria considers whether or not medication helps with the disability the rating will only be determined based on the evidence of the disability after medication not based on non-medicated symptoms. The VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities has several codes under which heart disease can be evaluated. If your healthcare provider doesnt have this form thats okay.

If the VA examination or evidence used in lieu of a VA examination contains only a diagnosis of pre-hypertension based on readings that do not meet the definition of hypertension or isolated systolic hypertension do. Continued a 10 percent disability rating for hypertension. Any other artery or vein condition.

As of December 1st 2020 the VA disability rate benefit amounts are as follows. Get a release of information form from your doctor to complete and submit along with your claim. The VA using the 38 CFR 7101 Hypertensive Vascular Disease criterion.

This case comes before the Board of Veterans Appeals Board on appeal from a November 2007 rating decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs VA Regional Office RO in Los Angeles California which granted service connection for hypertensive heart disease and assigned a 30 percent disability rating effective November 2 2006. Renal involvement in systemic diseases. One MET metabolic equivalent is the energy cost of standing quietly at rest and represents an oxygen uptake of 35 milliliters per kilogram of body weight per minute.

60 percent disability rating. VA Disability Rating for High Blood Pressure. A disability for VA purposes.

Evaluate cor pulmonale which is a form of secondary heart disease as part of the pulmonary condition that causes it. 4104 under diagnostic code 7101. The VA awards disability compensation for each Artery and Vein condition that is service-connectedThe DoD will also rate service-connected Artery and Vein conditions as long as they also make the service member Unfit for DutyFor Reservists the condition must have occurred in or resulted from an injury in the Line of Duty to qualify.

For heart disease the VA will grant a 10 30 60 or 100 percent disability rating. To file your VA disability for hypertension claim you must. VA proposes to evaluate disability due to these conditions pericardial adhesions syphilitic heart disease arteriosclerotic heart disease hypertensive heart disease and cardiomyopathy respectively using the General Rating Formula.

The appropriate code will be determined by whether you have had a myocardial infarction a heart attack heart failure valvular disease or surgery such as a heart bypass. When the level of METs at which dyspnea fatigue angina dizziness or syncope. Or if you served continuously for at least 90 days and are diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS after discharge you can establish service connection for the disease.

Hypertension is rated under 38 CFR. It took 3 or 4 months and I got a rating of 60 for it. Download Forms 21-4142 and 21-414a to complete and submit along with your VA disability for hypertension claim.

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