“…The Tucson study, however, included men (about 40% of the subjects) and a much larger number of Hispanics, which, along with regional differences, could partly explain the difference. The average time spent showering was about 120 min/ week in our study, which is in agreement with the previous American and Italian studies (Shimokura et al, 1998;Zender et al, 2001;Barbone et al, 2002), but was about 1 h more than found in the British study (Kaur et al, 2004), which reported an average of 54 min/week. The time spent in baths (50 min/week) was about the same, however, as in the British study.…”