Use of Patterns in a Therapy Management System

An article of manufacture containing code for diabetes analysis, comprising a computer-usable medium including at least one embedded computer program that is capable of causing at least one computer to perform:

• obtaining average glucose level information for a time period over a plurality of days;
• determining a current event occurrence;
• determining an event occurrence in the average glucose level information within the time period corresponding to the current event occurrence, wherein the current event occurrence is at a different time of day than the event occurrence;
• analyzing the average glucose level information starting in time from the event occurrence within the time period;
• determining a notification event in the average glucose level information starting in time from the event occurrence within the time period;
• predicting a current notification event in time from the current event occurrence based on a time span from the event occurrence to the notification event in the average glucose level information;
• and
• initiating an action in advance of the predicted current notification event.