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Dileep V Kumar ByExpress News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The fight against non-communicable diseases (NCD) is set to get a fillip in the state with the government proposing to implement population-based screening for hypertension, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy on a state-wide basis. The implementation of the screening programmes for hypertension, diabetes and diabetic retinopathy might bring a difference to this scenario,” said an officer of the health department. The state’s control rate against hypertension was 13 per cent. Now the control rate at Kannur is 45 percent, Thiruvananthapuram 36 per cent and at Thrissur and Kannur it is around 40 per cent,” the officer added. Meanwhile, the health department said that as with hypertension, the control rate for diabetes is also relatively low..