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We examined the effect of a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cookstove randomized controlled trial during pregnancy and infancy on linear growth trajectories among infants born to women enrolled during pregnancy. The Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) randomized controlled trial enrolled 3195 pregnant women (9 to &lt;20 weeks\u2019 gestation) from rural areas in Guatemala, Peru, India, and Rwanda who relied primarily on biomass fuels for cooking. Women in the intervention group received an LPG cookstove and fuel for approximately eighteen months, while those in the control group continued to use biomass for cooking. We measured the infants\u2019 recumbent length at birth and 3, 6, 9 and 12 months of age and calculated length-for-age z-score (LAZ). We conducted a multiple group latent class growth analysis among the 2802 infants who finished the study and had\u2009\u2265\u20093 length measurements across the five timepoints to examine if latent classes differed by study arm. We identified three latent classes of linear growth, based on visual inspection of mean LAZ and model fit statistics, which represent higher, medium, and lower LAZ trajectories. Approximately 13.2% of infants belong to the high LAZ trajectory, 53.8% of infants belong to the medium LAZ trajectory and 33.0% belong to the low LAZ trajectory. The distribution of infants in each latent class did not differ by intervention assignment. 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