Va Disability Hypertensive Vascular Disease

Examples of chronic disease include.

Va disability hypertensive vascular disease. 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. 4104 under diagnostic code 7101. All was well until 2002 I had some bad chest pains and ended up with 5 stents. When I saw the Cardiologist had diagnosed me with Hypertensive Heart Disease I filed a claim.

Veterans in the following groups may qualify for presumptive disability benefits. I was diagnosed with Hypertension in 1974 retired in 1979 with 10 for it. 60 percent disability rating. 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.

The hypertension VA rating depends on the severity of your high blood pressure. Any other artery or vein condition. As of December 1st 2020 the VA disability rate benefit amounts are as follows. To file your VA disability for hypertension claim you must.

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. The VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities has several codes under which heart disease can be evaluated. The Arteries and Veins are a vast network of blood.

Hypertension is rated under 38 CFR. Hypertension high blood pressure Traumatic arteriovenous fistula. 10 percent disability rating. 30 percent disability rating.

VA Disability Rating for High Blood Pressure. 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. A disability for VA purposes. Get a release of information form from your doctor to complete and submit along with your claim.

The Code of Federal Regulations CFR describes the rules from the Federal Government. If your healthcare provider doesnt have this form thats okay. The VA using the 38 CFR 7101 Hypertensive Vascular Disease criterion. 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.

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. Arthritis diabetes or hypertension. Your physician must clearly document your high blood pressure diagnosis before you can get a VA disability for hypertension rating. Renal involvement in systemic diseases.

When the level of METs at which dyspnea fatigue angina dizziness or syncope. It took 3 or 4 months and I got a rating of 60 for it. Evaluate cor pulmonale which is a form of secondary heart disease as part of the pulmonary condition that causes it. 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.

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. For heart disease the VA will grant a 10 30 60 or 100 percent disability rating.