Nevertheless, age and obesity are still the two greatest risk factors for sleep apnea, by far. Not tonsillectomies.
My ex-girlfriend had sleep apnea real bad. Plus she had gotten really overweight. Years after we broke up I urged her to get help for her sleep apnea. She didn’t take it seriously. A few years after that she died, heart attack in sleep so I was told. Age 57- she was a raving beauty in her younger days.