CANBERRA, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Australian women said their partners' nighttime wheezing, gasping and snorting has been killing their sex lives, a survey showed on Thursday.
The complaints were captured in a national survey commissioned by Fisher and Paykel Healthcare, which interviewed 500 women across the nation who sleep alongside snorers.
Fifty percent of respondents said snoring had damaged their romantic relationship, while 40 percent admitted to sleeping in a different room to spare themselves the torture.
More than 30 percent said their partner's snoring caused arguments, and six percent revealed it contributed to a relationship breakup.
According to Australia Associated Press, the snoring has also created physical side-effects to women.
Fifty percent of women said they were woken up at least once a night by their lover's snoring, with 15 percent of them reporting being woken up a number of times.
But despite 79 percent admitting resorting to violence by kicking or elbowing their breathless bedfellows, only 13 percent of respondents made their partner seek help from a doctor.
According to Fisher and Paykel Healthcare, heavy snoring is often a symptom of the common yet serious obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
About five percent of Australians suffer from the condition, Fisher and Paykel's OSA Clinical Research Manager Emma Duckworth said.
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