OBJECTIVE: To investigate the acid rebound in proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and its influential factors. METHODS: Totally 109 patients who treated with PPIs for 1 month in our hospital during Jan. -Dec. 2015 were collected, and telephone visit was conducted after 1 week withdrawal to the data of dyspeptic symptoms were input and scored by modified Glasgow Dyspepsia Sererity Score, then divided into no phenomenon group (<5 scores) and acid rebound in proton pump inhibitors group (≥5 scores). All patients were classified by basic diseases, age, gender, whether smoking and alcohol drinking, and phenomenon of acid rebound in PPIs were observed and analyzed. RESULTS: Totally 91 patients were observed, 49 were classified as acid rebound in PPIs group. χ2 test showed elderly patients (χ2=5.350,P=0.021) and people with smoking and alcohol drinking (χ2=4.351,P=0.037) were associated with the increased risk of acid rebound in PPIs; exclusion of the effects of gender and basic disease, Logistic regression analysis showed the risk of acid rebound in PPIs in elderly patients were 5.708 times to non-elderly patients [OR=5.708,95%CI(1.946,16.746),P=0.002]; people with smoking and alcohol drinking was 15.281 times to non-smoking and alcohol drinking [OR=15.281,95%CI(2.748,84.965),P=0.002], the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Parts of patients show acid rebound after stopping PPIs, while elderly patients and patients with smoking and alcohol drinking are the high-risk population, which should be paid attention to.