Realizations of Seifert matrices by hyperbolic knots

Recently Kearton showed that any Seifert matrix of a knot is S–equivalent to the Seifert matrix of a prime knot. We show in this note that such a matrix is in fact S–equivalent to the Seifert matrix of a hyperbolic knot. This result follows from reinterpreting this problem in terms of Blanchfield pairings and by applying results of Kawauchi.