The phrase "at direct risk" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation where something or someone is in immediate danger or jeopardy. Example: The hikers were at direct risk of falling off the cliff due to the loose rocks and steep terrain.
Many demonstrators were convinced that Russia's government was at direct risk of being overthrown.
He believes that the closures at Tata, SSI and Caparo leave 52,000 local manufacturing workers at direct risk of losing their jobs within the next five years.
"Being overweight puts you at direct risk for Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, stroke and heart disease, all leading causes of death in the United States".
After four months, the council determined she had been away from the perpetrator long enough that she was no longer at direct risk of domestic violence, and so not a priority for housing.
The government is also at direct risk: the Pentagon revealed it was the target of a massive 2008 cyber infiltration that officials linked to a foreign espionage agency.
Most people don't realise how narrow the criterium is: to qualify for asylum, you usually have to be at direct risk of persecution or death.
Of course Australia is at no direct risk compared to Japan, so Tokyo takes on no liability in exchange for its marginal benefit.
As children and adolescents are subject to many of the same diseases as adults, and consequently often treated with the same drugs, prescribing drugs "off label" can place the paediatric population at a direct risk of under- or overdosing and a delayed risk of long-term side effects.
A large proportion of medicines used in children are prescribed outside the terms of the drug license i.e. off-label, which can place children at a direct risk of under- or overdosing and a delayed risk of long-term adverse effects.
The four defined major population risk groups are: 1) Populations at direct or high risk: this group includes IDUs, multi-transfused patients such as hemophiliacs and thalassemics, dialysis patients, and viral hepatitis patients, among others.
AVID (www.avidcenter.org), begun here in 1980 by Mary Catherine Swanson, a high school English teacher, is not directed at failing "at risk" students, on whom so much attention usually focuses.
