Does the diagnostic odds ratio for a test increase, decrease or not change if there is a change in the prevalence of a disease?

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Does the diagnostic odds ratio of a test change if there is an outbreak of the particular disease in the population? If so, does it increase, decrease or just stay the same?

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The diagnostic odds ratio is defined mathematically as $$\text{Diagnostic odds ratio, DOR} = \dfrac{TP/FP}{FN/TN}$$ where $TP,FN,FP,TN$ are the number of true positives, false negatives, false positives and true negatives respectively.

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The diagnostic odds ratio may be expressed in terms of the sensitivity and specificity of the test: $$\text{DOR} = \frac{\text{sensitivity}\times\text{specificity}}{\left(1-\text{sensitivity}\right)\times\left(1-\text{specificity}\right)}$$

So if the sensitivity and specificity stay the same then the diagnostic odds ratio should also stay the same