Cholesterol and insulin resistance?

[Totto]

I read recently you can do some calculation with some cholesterol numbers and get an indication of the level of insulin resistance. Does anybody know anything about this?

 

[phoenix]

Trigs: HDL ratio but only in some ethnic groups as explained here. (says works for 'whites' but not other ethnicities)
http://www.myaadenetwork.org/p/bl/et/blogid=41&blogaid=755
in Taiwanese indivduals (its' better used in conjunction with sex, weight and ALT levels)
http://www.cardiab.com/content/10/1/93/
and it didn't 'work' in South Asian women
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23251403

(if you really want to follow it up there are a lot of recent studies on pubmed)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=triglyceride+HDL+ratio+insulin+resistance