“Moreover, males tend to have a higher proportion of fat around the neck, in soft palate and the upper part of the tongue, whereas women tend to have greater fat deposition in the lower part of the airway. When we relax, our tongue falls back and fills this space, but the bigger the gap, the more likely it is you will snore. “This is because men have a larger space at the back of their throats as they tend to have larger airways. “Men are more likely to snore or have sleep apnoea than women,” says Pavol Surda, a consultant ENT surgeon based at London Bridge hospital. The fact that I snore is made more likely because of my sex. There they lie, red‑eyed and resentful, while their snoring partners register themselves on the Richter scale.
More likely, millions of non-snorers, most of them women, are suffering silently. I haven’t yet contacted all 3.75 million regular snorers to clinch this point, but it seems very unlikely that all are sleeping on sofa beds. “There is nothing more disturbing than lying there trying to sleep and all you can do is tune into your partner snoring next to you,” says Dr Ellie Cannon, a GP and holder of my favourite job title, namely campaign ambassador for a leading anti-snoring nasal dilator. Some nights in the past year or so, while wife, daughter, cat and teddy bear are upstairs in one bed giggling over something or other, I – having been banished from the master bedroom – trudge sadly downstairs to the living room where I can snore without disturbing anyone.
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