Patent ID: 9563743
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: A61B,G16H

Claim:
1. A method of notifying a user of a high trend in blood glucose values obtained with a diabetes management unit having a microprocessor coupled to a display, memory and user interface, the method comprising: performing with the microprocessor, a plurality of blood glucose measurements of the user; storing in the memory, the plurality of blood glucose measurements of the user; determining, using the microprocessor, whether a most recent blood glucose measurement measured at a given time during a day is above a pre-determined high threshold; if the determining indicates that the most recent blood glucose measurement is above the pre-determined high threshold, then evaluating with the microprocessor whether the most recent blood glucose measurement is tagged as either being a measurement before a meal or a measurement made during a fasting period; if the evaluating indicates that the most recent blood glucose measurement is tagged as being either a measurement before a meal or a measurement made during a fasting period, then determining using the microprocessor whether there are two or more blood glucose measurements stored in memory over the previous N number of days that are above the pre-determined high threshold; if the determining indicates there are two or more blood glucose measurements stored in memory over the previous N number of days that are above the pre-determined high threshold, then determining using the microprocessor whether the two or more blood glucose measurements determined to exceed the pre-determined high threshold were tagged as being either being a measurement before a meal, a measurement made during a fasting period or both before a meal and during a fasting period; if the determining indicates the two or more blood glucose measurements determined to exceed the predetermined high threshold were tagged as being either being a measurement before a meal, a measurement made during a fasting period, or both during a meal and during a fasting period, then determining using the microprocessor whether the most recent blood glucose measurement and the two or more blood glucose measurements were performed within a time frame of approximately X hours that brackets the given time during each day but over prior days, wherein a difference in time between the most recent blood glucose measurement and an earliest blood glucose measurement taken over prior days is less than X hours; and upon achievement of the evaluating that the most recent blood glucose measurement and the two or more blood glucose measurements were performed within the time frame of approximately X hours that brackets the given time during each day but over prior days, then annunciating a high trend warning.