My husband was diagnosed about 15 years ago. He went to the dr because I heard him at night, he'd snore, then gasp, continuously.
He had to spend the night at a sleep center and they said he awoke around 65 times an hour.
What was unusual he was not over weight, in fact a little under then, and when he awoke during sleep, it was not a full awakening, just enough for him to breathe, then the cycle woyuld happen again. Because it was not a full awakening, he functioned normally during the day, just a bit tired.
His doctor had the longest thinnest fingers I've ever seen on a man. He was told they he was only going to laser out a little tissue, because there are problems that occur with taking out too much, so he may have to come back for further surgery, but he never did.
Before this, he had sore throats all the time, and instead of the uvela you see in the back of someone's throat, I saw a wall of tissue.
Around the same time, we talked to a guy that went to school with my sister whose dad died at 45, because he too had undiagnosed sleep apnea