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Which is a better scale to use for accurate results? digital or dial?

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Dr. William Simon answered

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Scale measurement : If you want to know weight changes to the 10ths of pounds then digital is going to be the best. I generally just have patients use the scales as guidelines for trending, because it is the loss overtime, not at one specific moment that you want.

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Answered 4/20/2015

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