A patient who has Parkinson's disease takes levodopa and carbidopa.The patient asks the primary care nurse practitioner (NP) why two drugs are necessary.The NP should explain that both drugs are needed to:
A) prolong effects of the levodopa.
B) delay progression of the disease.
C) decrease adverse peripheral side effects.
D) enhance passage of both drugs across the blood-brain barrier.
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