At least in kids... A Johns Hopkins study published in May 2015 suggests that tonsil size does NOT appear to correlate with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) severity and degree of response to T&A surgery . Regardless of the tonsil size even if they are small, improvement in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) occurs based on pre- and post-operative sleep studies. These findings seem counter-intuitive since one would think that the larger the tonsils, the more severe the OSA and the grea…