Currently, there is no approved vaccination or effective drug for protecting against or treating COVID-19; only symptomatic therapy and empirical/supportive treatments are available. Many of the mortalities related to COVID-19 have been primarily attributed to original patient comorbidities instead of pneumonia (Wang et al., 2020). This highlights the importance of focusing on pre-existing comorbidities of COVID-19 patients, particularly those of the cardiovascular system. Attention to therapies with cardiovascular side effects being proposed and applied to patients with COVID-19, especially those with underlying CVD is important. Notably, many of the therapies proposed to ameliorate the poor prognosis of COVID-19 patients are associated with cardiovascular adverse effects. For example, treatment of patients with COVID-19 with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, glucocorticoids and anti-viral agents, such as ribavirin, lopinavir/ritonavir, INF-α and the antibiotic azithromycin, could further increase the cardiovascular risk of COVID-19 patients.