Dietary Intake and Epigenetic Aging in an African Population: Food Groups, Dietary Patterns, and Plant-Based Diets in the RODAM Study.

This dataset supports the study “Dietary Intake and Epigenetic Aging in an African Population: Food Groups, Dietary Patterns, and Plant-Based Diets in the RODAM Study.” The data include Ghanaian adults from rural Ghana, urban Ghana, and Ghanaian migrants in Amsterdam participating in the RODAM study. Variables comprise sociodemographic factors, lifestyle characteristics, anthropometry, dietary intake derived from validated food frequency questionnaires (food groups, dietary patterns, and plant- vs. animal-based intake proportions), and DNA methylation–derived epigenetic age acceleration measures. The dataset enables analyses of associations between dietary patterns and biological aging in an African population across different environmental contexts.