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You have recently accepted a new position as a Research Coordinator at the NIH in Atlanta, studying the relationship between Physical Activity and early onset Type II Diabetes in children. The prevalence of Type II Diabetes in children and adolescents ink the United States is only 12:100,000. Because this occurs so rarely in children, for this study you have decided to specifically recruit children with diagnosed Type II Diabetes from the general population and "match" them with another health child of the same age, sex, race, and socioeconomic background. What specific type of study design are you using in this research project