Gastric mucosal atrophy at the age of 60 is generally not normal, normal people should not have gastric mucosal atrophy, the causes include infectious factors, immune factors, dietary factors and other factors. 1. Infectious factors: Helicobacter pylori infection is a common cause of gastric mucosal atrophy, which is not caused by old age. The pathogen damages the gastric mucosa, leading to the destruction of gastric mucosal cells and triggering the occurrence of gastric atrophy. 2. Immune factors: the immune system mistakenly attacks its own normal cells in the stomach, causing damage to the gastric mucosa and triggering the appearance of gastric atrophy. 3. Dietary factors: disease enters through the mouth, gastrointestinal diseases are generally related to dietary factors, long-term drinking strong tea, strong liquor, coffee, eating too cold and too hot food and food that is not easy to digest damage to the gastric mucosa will easily lead to gastric atrophy. 4. Other factors: such as prolonged smoking, exposure to lead, mercury and other heavy metals, long-term radiation therapy may lead to gastric mucosal atrophy. 60-year-old people gastric mucosal atrophy is usually abnormal, to prevent the occurrence of gastric mucosal atrophy, nausea, vomiting, stomach pain and other symptoms of gastric disease should be promptly to the hospital, so as not to delay the condition.