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The American Diabetes Association (ADA) recently lowered the cut off value for fasting glucose used in diagnosing diabetes mellitus from 140 mg/dL to 126 mg/dL. This reference interval change would be expected to produce which of the following alterations?

ADecrease the test's sensitivity
BIncrease the test's false negative rate
CIncrease the test's negative predictive value
DIncrease the test's positive predictive value
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