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Diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea is significantly more common among people in relationships who are aware of their partners sleeping activities considering sufferers can be unaware of their own symptoms, furthermore the stigma associated with the heavy snoring related to this disorder places a gender variant on the condition. A study by Henry and Rosenthal showed that women are less often told by their partners, and admit to themselves or doctors of their snoring due to not wanting to damage their perception of their own femininity, in addition to this, the most common treatment, the use of a CPAP machine is also seen by female suffers as ugly and damaging to the social perception of women being dainty in sleep and are therefore less likely to employ the machine to its full extent. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953612004492#