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Participants must already have been scheduled for the surgery and must have compelling obesity-related complications such as Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, high blood pressure or other cardiovascular risk factors.

Munson's mother, Barbara Farnsworth, said they exhausted all other options before resorting to surgery.

"It breaks your heart to see your child struggling and becoming so depressed and to hear doctors say she won't see 30 if she doesn't lose weight," Farnsworth said.

"This is only a tool, but I now see a future for Amanda that just wasn't there before." 7125885 Herb Jackson's notebook on covering Congress and Washington.

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