Epidemiology is the study and analysis of distribution and determinants of health-related conditions or events including diseases, and the practice of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems (
1). One of the basic issues in epidemiology and the beginning of a research project is conducting a suitable design for our study (
2). The aim of this study is to brief explanation the classification of different types of epidemiological studies according to diabetes disease.
The researcher should design his/her own study design based on his/her research question, available resources, time and budget. Figure 1 shows the classification of epidemiological studies (Figure 1) (
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Special Received: 2020/08/24 | Accepted: 2020/06/21 | Published: 2020/06/21